IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

K. E. Sadanandan Unni; Rani Srivastava; Alka Sabharwal; Babita Goyal

Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2019

Assessing the effect of Parentâ€˜s Psychiatric health and Environment on Adolescent Students Using GHQ –12

K. E. Sadanandan Unni, Rani Srivastava, Alka Sabharwal, Babita Goyal

Abstract :

Background– Parental psychiatric disorder affects several aspects of children’s development, including their physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development. School going children have been found to be affected by one or the other form of stress, anxiety and resultant depression. Objective– To determine effect of Parent’s Psychiatric health and Environment on Adolescent Students. Methods– This cross–sectional study was conducted during Feuary 2019 on adolescents’ students of classes IX and XI in New Delhi, India. A total number of 256 respondents between the age–group 15–18 years were selected. Results– The effect of parent’s psychiatric health is observed with total scores of GHQ (collected using bimodal) found to be significantly different as the p– value < 0.05 with permutation test performed on case and control groups. The effect of environment is assessed with total scores of GHQ (collected using Likert scale) are significantly different as the p– value< 0 .001 with permutation test and Wilcoxon test performed on private and government school students. Conclusions– General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)–12 based on Likert scale is more sensitive to measure common and minor psychiatric disturbances than GHQ–12 based on bimodal scale, as the mean and standard deviation of each question can be computed and compared.